After getting Arneh's help setting the proper values in the EECH.ini I was ready to start playing again. However, I'm having some trouble. I have like 25~30 FPS with no EOS views on the MFDs and 20~25 FPS with any of the EOS views shown on an MFD. The game should be playable with these framrates but I encounter the following: every 1 or 2 seconds it's like the game freezes for 100ms or 200ms. It's really a very brief period of time but as you can imagine it's very annoying if it happens every 1 or 2 seconds. Compare it to watching a movie when a little kid is constantly hitting the filmroll being played. During these 'ticks' the framerate remains normal and doesn't drop noticably.

I'm aware that it's not something caused by EECH or the mods since I'm probably the only one encountering this problem. However, it must be something caused by the game in combination with my graphic chipset/video drivers because other graphical applications and games do not show this symptom.

Acer Aspire 5100 series notebook
Vista Business N 32bit SP2
AMD Turion TL-50 64bit dualcore 1,6GHz
Corsair Value Select 4GB DDR2 667MHz
Western Digital Scorpio 320GB 7200RPM 16MB cache
ATI x1100 chipset (256MB hypermemory, substracted from the RAM) with the 8.362 drivers.
DirectX 10

Anyone?

try notnl=1 in eech.ini

Already had that set to 1.

This is your problem. This chipset benchmarks at around at about 50% slower than a Nvidia Fx Go 5700, a score of 367 on 3Dmark 2005.

ref- http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Radeon-Xpress-1100.2174.0.html

Notebooks rarely perform as gaming PC's due to their integrated grahpics.

You may be able to run this game on a build prior to GFX improvements. Perhaps v180 or there abouts. What res are you running at?

Another thing you might try is binding a joystick button to toggle "no cockpit" this way if your flying of cities with FLIR active and your fps chokes you can toggle the pit off/on. THis was a work around for low end systems in EE2.

Running the game at 1280*800*16 (native 15.4" screen res.). Already turned off persistent smoke and downwash dust because I get like 10FPS with those two turned on haha.

Does it happen on all maps? Is it the same in skirmishes as in campaigns?

Yes it does happen on all maps and yes it is the same in skirmishes as in campaigns.

I've noticed that the problem is slightly less visible when I put my refreshrate to 60Hz instead of 59Hz in the ATI control panel but it sure is not fully solved yet.

I'm currently monitoring the hardware temperatures with my CPU cores OC'ed from 1.6GHz to 1.8GHz, FSB from 200MHz to 250MHz, RAM speed from 333MHz to 366MHz and GPU core from 300MHz to 400MHz. For now it looks like the temperature is stable with no crashes/lock ups. Will start to test EECH when it remains like this.